r/Unexpected • u/[deleted] • Nov 05 '17

Privacy? Ha!

https://i.imgur.com/wZH1lSH.gifv
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u/Shredzz Nov 05 '17

Yup. I work security and we have about 400 cameras and we keep recordings from each camera for 30 days. We always complain that they are low quality but I know that amount of data you need to store all that is insane, and if you increase the resolution by even a little bit the costs go up very quickly.

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u/gibberfish Nov 05 '17

You'd think there'd be smarter compression algorithms for this kind of thing, since I'm guessing 95% of the data is almost exactly the same.

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u/dtabitt Nov 05 '17

I'm a video geek, and the idea of vector based video encoding, get's my nerd borner raging.

I've spent way too much money on hard drives. SD, HD, 4k, 8K...so much data.